John Hartig is one of seven artists selected to participate in the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Artist in Residence program. He plans to work on his book-in-progress, Great Lakes Champions: Stories of People Who Have Championed Cleanup of the Great Lakes during his residency.
The search is on. The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s (GAAC) board of directors is now formally looking for a new executive director.
For 20 years, Michael Buhler was co-editor of the Sun. He designed these pages, adeptly arranged advertisements like Tetris blocks, and placed the stories and photos before you. Mike helped turn this rag into an attractive, full-color newsprint magazine with ads and images that pop, and stories that educate—a true asset of our vibrant community. But no longer. Mike died suddenly on the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 16. He leaves a void in our hearts the size of the Manitou Passage.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) will hold an open call-for-entries foragriCULTURE: Barnyards andFarmscapes,a juried exhibition exploring the interconnections of food, farming and community through the lenses of art, architecture, film, history and theater. Entries for the show’s on-site jury may be delivered to the GAAC, (located at 6031 S. Lake St.), on Sept. 4-5, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
After a year’s hiatus for construction, the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s (GAAC) Artist-in-Residence program resumed in May 2018. This program of working residencies was established in the 1990s, and now attracts applicants from throughout the United States. Kathleen Kalinowski is one of seven artists selected in 2018. She will create drawings and paintings based on the themes of “nocturne” and “memory” in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore during her two-week residency.
The Glen Arbor community, family and friends, and the braintrust of the Glen Arbor Sun newspaper are devastated by the sudden passing, Aug. 16, of H. Michael Buhler, who died of a heart attack. He was 57 years young.
An annual tradition returns to the Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC). The GAAC’s 2018 member show, a showcase of GAAC members’ talents, opens Aug. 17 with an artists’ reception from 6-8 p.m. at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor.
The Summer Singers, an all-volunteer group of 50 voices, punctuate the 2018 Manitou Music Festival (MMF). This traditional MMF closing concert is Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. The concert takes place at Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road, in Burdickville. The concert is free.
The Leelanau Women Artists will host a member’s show of paintings, jewelry, fused glass, and furniture, Aug. 10-11, at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. An opening reception with the artists will be Friday, Aug. 10 from 5-7 p.m. The show continues on Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Local jeweler Pam Meteer Peplinski, who will be showing and selling her work at the Glen Arbor Arts Center in August with the Leelanau Women artists, has just about the deepest Leelanau County roots a non-native can have.